Lost Colony

Famous quotes containing the words lost and/or colony:

“Jewels being lost are found againe, this never,
T’is lost but once, and once lost, lost for ever.”
—Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)

““Tall tales” were told of the sociability of the Texans, one even going so far as to picture a member of the Austin colony forcing a stranger at the point of a gun to visit him.”
—Administration in the State of Texa, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)